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And it is no less true, that personal security and private propert

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. – Joseph Story

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A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. – Joseph Story

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Knowledge
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Joseph Story
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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. – Joseph Story

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Intelligence
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Joseph Story
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. – Aristotle

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The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in Gods Eyes. – Mary Astell

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. – Aristophanes

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. – Proverb

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